Re: Re: Announce: PDO beta releases
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:25:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Announce: PDO beta releases | ||
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 17:16:07 +0000, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Not into Oracle ;) , but it answers the main questions. PDO is not
> planned to be a replacement for ADOdb.
Correct.
> > No. That is something for another layer. PDO is intended to be a
> > very light layer with minimal interference.
>
> Until all engines can use the same SQL there is little point in a
> generic layer that means you have to re-engineer the queries when ever
> you switch engines ? Unless it is very much faster than the existing
> drivers, in which case I'd switch the Firebird ADOdb driver to use it :)
> So I'm looking at a different level of the Abstraction Model.
One of the major aims of PDO is to eventually replace the existing
database extensions in PHP, not to provide total abstraction (which is
a impossible goal in the opinions of many seasoned developers).
--Wez.